skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> against magically flexible code claiming to handwave away complexity

It might have just been scope creep over time that became a mountain of internal technical debt, data dependencies, and complexity. That's difficult to cleanly migrate away from because you can't risk breaking your callers. That's what it was in our case.
While this kind of failure is certainly not unheard of, it's not exactly the norm for good quality frames in my experience; I've had quite a few old and well used but high quality frames.

One of my frames did start to crack, but it is now 35 years old - it's an Olmo record
It seems like you're comparing a tight-tolerance handmade part with a loose-tolerance mass-produced part. But it's possible to mass-produce parts to any desired level of tolerance. It just costs more. TSMC is currently mass-producing parts with tolerances on the order of a nanometer.

It also costs more to handmake parts with tight tolerances than to handmake them with loose tolerances. So from a certain point of view tolerances are all about your budget.

Here's the crucial part, though. You can get any given tolerance level more cheaply by handmaking things at low volumes, and more cheaply through mass production at high volumes.

But let's talk about consistency. In today's statistical process control regimes, it's common for mass-produced parts to hit "six sigma": the point where the tolerances they're manufactured to are six standard deviations out from the process mean, so the normal variation in the process will only produce out-of-tolerance parts in one of a billion cases (1 - pnorm(6) in R). In practice, uncharacterized sources of variation that don't follow the normal distribution tend to overwhelm that, but it's still common to have a better than 99% chance that the part the manufacturer sends you will meet its specifications.

By contrast, when you contract with someone to make the first instance of something, if it's a very reputable maker, you might get 95%. The other 5% includes things like misunderstandings of the specs, unforeseen accidents, and undetected sources of deviation. In complex fields like architecture and software your chances of getting what you ordered are more like 0%.
To be clear: I'm not talking about TFA. I'm talking about OP. TFA had substance for sure. But the OP just vaguely talks about taking VC money.

This is distinctive because the AT Protocol exists to specifically prevent the degradation that VC does. So I'm curious what about Bluesky and the AT Protocol are of concern here that VC capture could affect. That's why I linked Christine Lemmer-Webber's post.

> If want to verbalize uncharitable takes on HN, be careful what you start. Your own comment could've been bog-standard damage control astroturfing.

I find that funny that folks think Bluesky has astroturfing around it, but sure you're welcome to think that way. HN is pretty big these days.
In the comment you are replying to, I’m trying to explain some of the reasons for the world being the way it is. I’m not trying to convince you to be happy about it.
How about this:

'Nothing is essential until you prove it is' - apply to the cookie ombudsman for €1k to make your case for allowance.

You complete a detailed form including giving your company registration and the reason for use of each cookie. You list each company with access.

You pay into escrow €10 per user per company (eg 10 users, sending data to 1200 companies; 120000€) you wish to gather/keep data on, providing that users details and an annual fee.

Any non trivial infringement and you get DNS blocklisted, the escrow money is paid out, CEO of the registered company is fined one years income (max of last 4 years) and legal proceedings are started against the company and its executives.

On application to the cookie ombudsman I can see all companies who legally have access to my data (and via which gateway company), I can withdraw access, they can withdraw service.
Bluesky has not yet degraded.

But the funding model it chose has proven to degrade the user experience of every other service.
I prefer Mercurial. It's easier to teach to non-programmers and it has a less confusing cli. Git has a terrible mess of cli options. I have also used Fossil and that is very nicely designed. Played a bit with bzr and darcs in the past. For many users Mercurial or Fossil would be the better tool for them than Git. Also checkout EasyMercurial, it's a suburb GUI for Mercurial.
The important border for immigrants is the coastline, not the land borders with other EU countries. We can’t close them and forcefully repatriate like Australia does due to “humanitarian” reasons and NGOs.
No, those aren't the only viewpoints on the site. Twitter's got leftists, rightists, uninformed randos, journalists, shitposters, everything. Skip "trending," for sure, but the algorithm is pretty good at giving you what you want to see.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRQSONu...

Or

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSaFnDH...

What choices we have.

Replace the Israeli flag with the US one when we invade someone else again.
Show HN: A privacy-focused VS Code extension for tracking coding activity
I built this extension because I wanted a simple way to track my coding activity without sending data to third-party servers. It runs locally, integrates with GitHub, and shows your activity right in VS Code's status bar.

The extension is open source, requires no account creation, and stores all data locally. It's built with TypeScript and uses VS Code's native APIs for tracking active editor time.

Github : https://github.com/ernivani/my-code-activity-ext

VS Code Marketplace : https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ernicani...
The Network effect, and cultural mind share are two pretty effective moats.

Meta and X proven surprisingly resilient in the face of pretty overwhelming negative sentiment. Google maintains monopoly status on Web Search and in Browsers despite not being remarkably better than competition. Microsoft remains overwhelmingly dominant in the OS market despite having a deeply flawed product. Amazon sells well despite a proliferation of fake reviews and products. Netflix thrives even while cutting back sharply on product quality. Valve has a near-stranglehold on PC games distribution despite their tech stack being trivially replicable. The list goes on.
Somebody has to pay for the subsidies. If poorer countries get them, richer mebmer countries will have to pay for them. Richer countries, like Iceland, will never get subsidies.
The new Java runtime does this using lightweight fibres.
Depends. If they manage to actually find a way to create an AGI, then a six month head start might be massive at that point. Until then... not so much.
It gave me an error after searching "Gandhi and Tolstoy relationship" and said to check the browser console. Then I tried to hit the back button and it seemed to create many many pages to go back thru.
Sounds like this isn't anything new? The cited papers are from 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Just noting for the record that Openoffice has tons of security problems and no development happening. Apache won't retire the project because they have some kind of MBA-brained theory that the 'brand' is worth misleading people.

Libreoffice is the active project: https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/writer/
> We don't want to have some ultra rich giant companies when everyone else tries to survive by the scraps,

So we’d rather have nothing at all?

The extremely low salaries for tech workers is one of the best indicators. There is just not enough demand in Europe because there is no growth and very few companies doing anything innovative.

> capital concentration which is not a good thing by European culture.

Higher disposable incomes are also bot good for European culture, right?
People think in terms of what is inconveniencing them directly. Great examples are when consumers yell at low level workers when a company has horrible policies that run back to cost cutting...

or union workers strike against Imaginary Mail Service Corp. because they are being killed on the job, and people (consumers) get angry at the workers because their package wont show up on time (or the railways arent running, etc...) instead of getting mad at the company inflicting that damage on other people...

or when [imaginary country] puts sanctions on [other poorer country] the people of that country blame the government in power instead of the people directly inflicting harm on them.

I'm not sure why this is the case, but we have been conditioned to be resistant to the inconvenience and not the direct cause. Maybe its because the direct cause tends to be a faceless, nameless entity that directly benefits from not being the target of ire.
What's your opinion on China's and India's carbon dioxide emissions over the next 10 years?
You'd have to have either a breakthrough algorithm (that you keep secret forever) or proprietary training data.
I don’t know about that with other industries

I know a few mechanical engineers and they haven’t seemed to have the same hurdles. One works in the car industry, a few others in industrial areas, they all switch jobs by simply applying online to their desired companies.

I know some accountants and people who work in logistics who cleared lower bars to get interviews, though I suspect the accounting shortage had some to do with the former.

Finance is very networking heavy but clearing their interview process in some respects sounds easier than the leetcode engineering grind but that may not be representative of the situation as a whole.

Networking never hurts, no matter the industry but tech has a self inflicted wound around hiring practices few other industries seem to have
I'm still stunned that anyone voted "leave". Even if you were strongly in favor of leaving the EU that particular referendum was terrible. The question asked was:

> Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?

There was nothing about what should happen if "leave" won.

The referendum should have been for the UK to prepare a detailed plan for leaving the Union and then have a referendum on whether or not to implement that plan.
I remember that in Windows 3.0 time there was "Fractal Designer Painter" software, which had different engines to precisely emulate different types of painting materials: pastel, oil, water color, gouache. It imitaded mixing, stroke, pressure, etc. It looks incredible realistic in these times when 800x600x24bit screen was a luxury. And it was very slow on i486 computer.

As I learned several minutes ago now it is Corel Painter.

I wonder, is it still good and how it (both old and new algorithms, I allow that it was simplified down the road!) compares to this new library.

Unfortunately, authors doesn't compare themselves with Corel Painter.
Eliminating sources of variation from your manufacturing processes can reduce downstream costs in a lot of ways. The most obvious one is less rework, but also you need, for example, less inventory to buffer variations in production pace. Consequently it's now conventional wisdom that, although hitting tighter tolerances costs more, doing what the Japanese were doing normally costs less.
What the parent poster was talking about was not the old hardware IDE interface, but the emulation of the IDE interface within the SATA controller, which exists for compatibility with very old operating systems which understand the old IDE interface but not the newer SATA interface. Since nearly all modern operating systems understand the SATA interface (AHCI) natively (that is, without having to install any extra drivers), that compatibility mode is not very relevant anymore.
Cherry picking a data point is misleading. Rather than compare a record low year, why not look at a trend?

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
>That’s got to be true too. Few of us want to be making manual HTTP calls out to APIs anymore. These days a great SDK, not a great API, is a hallmark, and maybe even a necessity, of a world class development experience.

I may be in that "few of us" set because I really prefer a simple HTTP API that I can implement myself rather than having to take a library dependency on some code with transitive dependencies and unknown future maintainership. A good SDK is nice to have but a integrating with a bad one by accident is horrible.
Is there evidence of that?

The centrist Dems always blame those further left, not themselves. They did it in 2016 and this year too.
If you're in a position like mitchellh or antirez then more power to you
Which didn't justify the ban. Other countries didn't follow suit, main effect was hurting US nuclear industry and increasing pollution.

P.S. These weren't solar panels (i.e. electricity generation), but solar water heaters. A very different tech, a useful tech, but not a global warming solution.
I agree. I think it’s the ‘if you’re interested in …, check out …’ pattern that sets off many spam detectors — including the one built into my brain. Without that, it’s already more palatable.
This is FUD.

Millions of businesses trust Google and Microsoft with their spreadsheets, emails, documents, etc… The EULAs are very similar.

If any major provider was caught violating the terms of these agreements they’d lose a massive amount of business! It’s just not worth it.
The plan was set to have ended oil imports by the year 2000. Just making buildings across the sunbelt more reflective of infra red on their roofs could have helped reduce growth in peak demand as the south and west have grown.
This is one of the sentiment that powers the Common Lisp ecosystem. There's already good data structures and functions in the standard (and quasi standard) library, why do you need to invent new ones? In other languages (Node JS), you take a library and it brings a whole kitchen with it.
one must ask themselves, "why?", this never happens lol.
I don't know if I would ever be able to get over the absurdity of a Statement of Country for internet posters
Bit late to the party. Just today on a Germany political podcast (Phoenix Runde) I was hearing the "experts", the crop of people who are largely responsible for the current economical and political under performance of the union, ... musing on what the solution could be to make Europe great again.

Their solution? Create an inner union of the EU countries that really matter (Germany, France, Beneleux ...etc). No I'm not making this up. It's not even the first time this idea was floated around. So to me it seems that the EU as a single block is almost finished.
On my last job, since the project is based on Ruby on Rails, we implementei this https://github.com/toptal/crystalball and additional modifications based on the gitlab setup. After that, the pull requests test suite runs pretty fast
Google didn't have ads until 2000. They strongly resisted banner ads (which were the only format at the time) until they invented contextual text ads.
The mere existence of short term rentals is a societal and neighborhood-level problems.

Banning the behaviors requires enforcement every time. It means someone has to sit around, suffer the problem, document it, go through processes to create a violation, maybe fine the owner (who will likely contest it and waste more time and money), and then still probably be unable to collect.

Then the short term renter leaves, a new one comes in, and all the neighbors get the same problem over and over. Endless suffering and endless work.

In Washington state, our HOA has talked to multiple management firms familiar with the case law who say that unless an owner is behind on dues, and unless unpaid fines are in the high thousands of dollars, there is no consequence for the homeowners not paying the fines and we have no way to collect.
Did he create those problems or inherit them? The situations in Iran, OPEC, etc. long pre-dated Carter. Another problem was a military that was ruined in terms of morale and probably in wear-and-tear by Vietnam.
"one of the two major political parties in the US likes their voters dumb - the dumber the better."

Not dumb enough to get a useless degree in feminist basket weaving on a 200k loan though..
Wasn’t it made out of plastic? Why would anyone buy a phone like that these days..
Doesn’t Krita do this?
Interesting that it takes an LLM with 405 BILLION parameters to accurately recall text from a document with slightly less than 728 THOUSAND words. (not quite three decimal orders of magnitude smaller but still).
This does not look inactive to me:

https://github.com/apache/openoffice/graphs/commit-activity

It does not have as much activity as Libre Office, but saying it is inactive seems extreme to me:

https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/graphs/commit-activity
I think if the people of Virginia were voting in 1989 whether to allow in me and 500,000 people like me, those people would not be better off as a result of choosing immigration.

- We have made their schools and jobs more competitive. We don’t have the taboo on open competition like British Americans, and don’t have the same idea of raising “well rounded” kids. My dad grew up in a village where 20% of kids died before age 5. He got out because he is a grinder. My parents socialized me to work 16 hours a day, discouraged dating, or having any hobbies that you couldn’t put on a resume, etc. I went to a STEM magnet school that went from 20-25% asian when I was there to 70% asian at the peak, and we completely changed the culture.

- We have facilitated societal changes, because we don’t value individual liberty as highly but place more value on social order. We don’t value common wisdom the way British Americans do, but place more value on formal education and credentials.

- We have reduced social cohesion. My family feels no personal solidarity with poor Americans. My family is economically liberal in a generic sense, but only insofar as they don’t personally have to pay more taxes.
Mikage (Nintendo 3ds emulator) goes open source
and they finished it with: "48-year old rabbit finally finishes the job". https://theonion.com/48-year-old-rabbit-finally-finishes-the...
Regardless of what I think about the actual issue, this is not honest depiction of the reality. At least in Finland, the politians keep saying that they are forced by international treaties and EU to keep the borders open.
Categorizing in terms of absolutes, such as "there are no liberals who ..." and "no conservatives who ...", is to engage in reductionism for the purpose of supporting a preconceived notion:

... for majority of people every single opinion and thought
they have just magically lines up with one political party ...

This is simply not true.
I think dropping the 3.3v and -12v connections is a valid choice, but they probably should have found a different connector to use so the incompatability was obvious.
Technically, the whole country could just switch to Euros without even being in the EU.

Granted, the only two countries to do so (Montenegro and Kosovo) never bothered with creating their own currency to begin with, they went straight to Euros post-independence (with some disgruntlement from the EU). And then there's also two (Bulgaria and Bosnia) which are technically not using Euros, but their currencies are pegged to Euros and stupidly simple to convert (1 EUR = 1.95583 BAM/BGN, so just multiply/divide by 2).
Super quick browse...but...IMHO, aren't video diffusion models and ebsynth apples and oranges?

ebsynth looks like final cut pro plugins for masking and tracking. I could see the projected customer base being similar, but the skillset & resources required from your engineering team is significantly different.

> Secret Weapons was [set] to conquer AI video and AI creative tools

Oh goodness, I think we both agree that's a bit much :)
What is the moat of the Google Search? To me the LLM is the first and the only disruptor so far of the Search.
> My other comments expand on the biggest issue which is the advertiser-optimized engagement algorithm. A site which does not cater to advertising (using an alternative source of income such as a user-driven subscription model) can instead maintain a time-based feed. This is a much better user experience. It doesn't favor negative engagement, it's less addicting, and it doesn't create artificial virality.

Thanks I probably should have read the other comments.

I haven't registered for a new Bluesky account in a while now, but when I joined there was no algorithmic feed. The "Discover" feed was added later. The default feed for me at least is still the timeline. I do occasionally glance at the "Discover" feed, but I ended up writing my own feed algorithms for my own uses that I use more often.

Though I will say, even on my purely time-based feed, ragebait always wins. People like ragebait. Today <Jane Johnson> is a nazi. Tomorrow <insert bad customer service story> so corporations are evil. While my examples are colored by the folks I follow, I'll bet this makes up the majority of content online.

I've been trying to work on a feed that removes this kind of ragebait but it's proving real hard especially when the post is sarcastic. I'd love to connect with folks who have worked on algorithmic feeds in the past and know how to crack this problem. Right now Muted Words tend to do the trick when there's a new Villain (not always a person, sometimes an entity) of the Day on my feed, but I'd love to do this automatically.
When they came out with the POWER9 systems originally the price to performance wasn’t that bad. It’s been a while since then. But also they seem to have known their market so priced it to hopefully be a sustainable business to recover the engineering costs.
I'm not sure why it did not work. I searched the same query, and it worked.

https://graphthem.com/search?uuid=c7632e5c-efb7-4120-b72f-5b...
Scenario C is more likely the culprit. I have seen multiple examples of prebuilt PCs and laptops defaulting to software RAID mode for reasons unknown, and they did not always have a toggle just like in OP’s case.

The only time I have come across scenario B was with a VAIO laptop from around 2011. The machine was advertised to come with “fastest SSD on the market” which turned out to be four (!) off the shelf eMMC modules in RAID 0 through a hardware controller. As janky as it sounds, OS compatibility was never an issue because the controller was a fairly common model with well established driver support rather than some bespoke mystery.
It also had a plastic back cover? How do you do the same with glass?
I seriously doubt anyone in the above list got in through the O1 visa.
Little Snitch: Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS
Wow, just in time to make into this year’s https://deathlist.net count. Rest in peace, Jimmy.
This has been around for a few years now, but it is doomed by a non-commerical/restrictive license.

https://krita-artists.org/t/implementing-mixbox-mixing-for-k...
Finally! No more one use batteries, please!
No one could be held responsible for the people affected by either of those accidents. Metropolitan Edison was only responsible to the regulatory agencies and their shareholders. Russia was a dictatorship.

The problem with regulatory agencies in the US are, they're not directly voted in by the public and they can be corrupted by bribery or regulatory capture.

Further violating regulations results in monetary fines or maybe getting their license revoked, but not jail time for the bad actors.
it's debated because it's impossile to settle. Otherwise set the minimum wage to $5000 per hr. See how it works out
What do you think they've been building these multimodal models with? If I had Google application logs from the past few decades I would absolutely be transforming it and loading into my training dataset. I would not be surprised if Google/Meta/Msft are not doing this already

When the big companies say they're running out of data, I think they mean it literally. They have hoovered up everything external and internal and are now facing the overwhelming mediocrity that synthetic data provides.